Food system sustainability requires lower energy use

Modern sustainability practices often encourage resource and energy efficiencies across separate sectors, such as food production…

Fruit fly study unlocks insights into human mating rituals  

A new study from Western identifies a specific gene in fruit flies that drives female mate…

Visualization of functional components to characterize optimal composite electrodes

Researchers have developed a visualization method that will determine the distribution of components in battery electrodes…

Migration patterns reveal an Eden for ancient humans and animals

Home to some of the richest evidence for the behavior and culture of the earliest clearly…

Basics of heartworm disease testing

Summer is growing closer and as the weather begins to warm up, mosquitos will become more…

Researchers demonstrate transport of mechanical energy, even through damaged pathways

Most technologies today rely on devices that transport energy in the form of light, radio, or…

Researchers create global arsenic-in-groundwater maps to highlight threats

A pair of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology has created…

Rich and poor don't recover equally from epidemics: Rebuilding fairly is a global challenge

Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, disaster recovery plans are almost always framed with aspirational…

Scientists demonstrate new wavelength shift with diode-pumped continuous-wave Yb:CALGO laser

In 1960, Maiman’s first demonstration of the ruby laser initiated the beginning of the laser era.…

Space Force is starting to train its soldiers to fight… in space?

On February 19, 2019, the U.S. Space Force (USSF) was officially created with the signing of…